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Beaten and Burned Alive - High school kids in Burma.

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

An eyewitness from inside Burma reports that injured protesters are being taken to the Yay Way cemetery outside of Rangoon, and burned alive in an effort to destroy the evidence of the genocide occurring.
This shocking report comes only hours after news that dozens of high school students were shot and beaten to death.
Regardless, the junta […]

Blogs from Burma

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Another column of thousands of people are coming to their way to reinforce the peaceful demonstrators who are in confrontation with armed military troops.
A respectful old monk is in the vanguard of the column singing national anthem and holding flags of fighting peacock.
Despite peaceful demonstrators having been beaten to break up the crowd, the demonstrators […]

Be with Burma

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Have you been following the swelling peaceful protests in Burma, the monks with their world trembling calls for Dialogue? The way they first asked the people not to join them out of a concern for safety and then, when the movement had grown and the monks were filling the streets and the people couldn’t be […]

Bush Edits the Libraries

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

This, in my opinion, could be grounds enough for impeachment… given how fluffy the definition of those grounds seems to be.
The plan to standardize the libraries first became public in May (…) “Otisville had a very extensive library of Jewish religious books, many of them donated,” said David Zwiebel, executive vice president for government […]

1 in 4 Mammals are Endangered

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The western gorilla, a Chinese dolphin and even coral are all at the top of the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN) priority cases, according to the organization’s Red List released Wednesday.
Furthermore, one in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all amphibians and 70 per cent of the world’s assessed plants are also endangered.
“This […]

Wiki Conference in Montreal!

Monday, September 10th, 2007

WikiSym 2007
2007 International Symposium on Wikis
Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
October 21-23, 2007
Palais des Congres de Montral
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
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Registration is now open for WikiSym 2007, convening October 21 through 23
in chic, sophisticated, metropolitan Montreal, Quebec.
**Deadline for early registration is September 13th**
NO ORDINARY CONFERENCE
WikiSym is the only international scientific […]










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